The Amana Society collection contains materials of the Community of True Inspiration held by the Special Collections Department of Hamilton College. The Community of True Inspiration, today's Amana Society, is a Pietist sect that began in south central Germany in 1714. The Inspirationists, like the Shakers, were influenced by the "French Prophets,"…
The Amana Society collection contains materials of the Community of True Inspiration held by the Special Collections Department of Hamilton College. The Community of True…
Genre: Ephemera, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies
Letters (various New York regiments): 456 letters written during the American Civil War and related to regiments mustered out counties in the Central New York region such as Oneida County, Herkimer County, and Madison County. 926 Enlistment Forms (submitted in Oneida County, Herkimer County, and Madison County) New York 117th…
Letters (various New York regiments): 456 letters written during the American Civil War and related to regiments mustered out counties in the Central New York region such…
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
A collection of materials related to banjos held by the Rare Books and Special Collections Department. Many of these items were acquired from the Robert Fraker Collection of Nineteenth-Century Banjo Instruction Manuals. Includes: 36 banjo instruction manuals 32 minstrel broadsides Sermons, essays, and other writings Three published…
A collection of materials related to banjos held by the Rare Books and Special Collections Department. Many of these items were acquired from the Robert Fraker Collection of…
Genre: Ephemera, Publications
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
The Beinecke Collection is the pièce de résistance of the Hamilton College Library collections. It is the preeminent collection of materials on the Lesser Antilles, largely from the 16th-19th centuries. This online collection includes more than 18,000 pages of rare original plantation reports, correspondence, oil paintings and watercolors. This…
The Beinecke Collection is the pièce de résistance of the Hamilton College Library collections. It is the preeminent collection of materials on the Lesser Antilles, largely…
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Visual Materials
Language: English, French
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Lesser Antilles
The Bishop Hill Colony was founded in western Illinois in 1846 by dissenters from the Swedish Lutheran Church. Known as lasare (or readers), they read the Bible for themselves and followed the preaching of their leader Erik Janson. Many of the settlers perished during a difficult first winter at their new home in the United States. Additionally,…
The Bishop Hill Colony was founded in western Illinois in 1846 by dissenters from the Swedish Lutheran Church. Known as lasare (or readers), they read the Bible for themselves…
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts
Language: English, Swedish
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections, Communal Societies
This collection comprises letters of noted journalist and Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour, and his wife. Charlotte Wilbour was a major, if perhaps unsung, player in the suffragist movement. Though her husband departed for Egypt and Europe in the 1870s, Wilbour remained at home in New York City, where she was a founding member of Sorosis, the…
This collection comprises letters of noted journalist and Egyptologist Charles Edwin Wilbour, and his wife. Charlotte Wilbour was a major, if perhaps unsung, player in the…
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
The Special Collections of Hamilton College include a substantial gathering of primary and secondary source materials relating to Communal Societies: groups of people intentionally living separate from the surrounding general society according to a shared set of principles, whether religious or secular, with common ownership of property. This…
The Special Collections of Hamilton College include a substantial gathering of primary and secondary source materials relating to Communal Societies: groups of people…
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English, German
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
This is a collection of correspondence, notes, and publications related to Dr. Edward Robinson (April 10, 1794 – January 27, 1863). Robinson was an American biblical scholar who conducted research in Biblical Geography and Biblical Archaeology in the Ottoman-ruled Palestine region in the late 1830s and 1850s. He was an 1816 graduate of Hamilton…
This is a collection of correspondence, notes, and publications related to Dr. Edward Robinson (April 10, 1794 – January 27, 1863). Robinson was an American biblical scholar…
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Realia, Visual Materials
Language: English, German, French
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
A collection of 268 postcards collected by Dorothy (Shakespear) Pound, wife of Ezra Pound, showing correspondence between her, her friends, her relatives, and her husband. The famous modernist poet Ezra Pound attended Hamilton College from 1903-1905. Hamilton College holds additional archival materials by and relating to Ezra Pound and his…
A collection of 268 postcards collected by Dorothy (Shakespear) Pound, wife of Ezra Pound, showing correspondence between her, her friends, her relatives, and her…
Genre: Ephemera, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
Correspondence of the International Institute of China and other material related to that institution and to Gilbert Reid, its director.
Correspondence of the International Institute of China and other material related to that institution and to Gilbert Reid, its director.
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English, Chinese, Simplified, French, German, Arabic, Dutch, Hungarian, Japanese, Latin
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Archives, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
The Hamilton College Archives hold Hamilton and Kirkland College records and personal papers of enduring value from administrators, faculty, students, and alumni from the founding of the Hamilton-Oneida Academy to the present.
The Hamilton College Archives hold Hamilton and Kirkland College records and personal papers of enduring value from administrators, faculty, students, and alumni from the…
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
Commencement programs of Hamilton College.
Commencement programs of Hamilton College.
Genre: Ephemera
Language: English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Archives, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
Basic top level digital collection for Hamilton College
Basic top level digital collection for Hamilton College
Genre: Audiovisual Materials, Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Realia, Visual Materials
Language: English
Materials related to The Israelite's House of David and Mary's City of David.
Materials related to The Israelite's House of David and Mary's City of David.
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: Communal Societies, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
These are materials related to the Israelite House of David community founded by Benjamin and Mary Purnell in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Israelite House of David, and The Israelite House of David as Reorganized by Mary Purnell (commonly called Mary's City of David), communities are active at present. Popularly known for their athletic teams…
These are materials related to the Israelite House of David community founded by Benjamin and Mary Purnell in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Israelite House of David, and The…
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: House of David
The Kerista commune existed in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California, from 1971 to 1991. The Kerista religion was founded in 1956 in New York City by World War II veteran John Peltz Presmont, who became known as Bro Jud Presmont. The Keristans practiced polyfidelity, in which up to twenty-four or thirty-six partners (an even…
The Kerista commune existed in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, California, from 1971 to 1991. The Kerista religion was founded in 1956 in New York City by…
Genre: Ephemera
Language: English
Collection Membership: Communal Societies, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
Manuscript materials related to Rev. Samuel Kirkland (1741-1808), founder of Hamilton-Oneida Academy, which became Hamilton College soon after his death. Includes 648 letters, legal documents, and memos, some of which are written in an Iroquois language. 102 of the letters have been transcribed and can be searched by keywords or phrases.
Manuscript materials related to Rev. Samuel Kirkland (1741-1808), founder of Hamilton-Oneida Academy, which became Hamilton College soon after his death. Includes 648 letters,…
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts
Language: Iroquois, English
Collection Membership: Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
The collection consists of digitized materials related to the Shakers.
The collection consists of digitized materials related to the Shakers.
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: Communal Societies, Hamilton College Library Digital Collections
The Shaker collection consists of digitized materials related to the United Society of Believer's in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly called Shakers.
The Shaker collection consists of digitized materials related to the United Society of Believer's in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly called Shakers.
Genre: Ephemera, Manuscripts, Publications, Visual Materials
Language: English
Collection Membership: Shakers